Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 4

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2025-q4-v1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/8ya9-3j92

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

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Valid: 15839

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 11

Mean: 6.0097859713366

Standard deviation: 2.7720289794871

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	1195	7.5%
2	Professionals	803	5.1%
3	Technical and associate professionals	1403	8.9%
4	Clerks	1620	10.2%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	2914	18.4%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	59	0.4%
7	Craft and related trades workers	1761	11.1%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	1261	8%
9	Elementary Occupation	3908	24.7%
10	Domestic workers	877	5.5%
11	Other	38	0.2%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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